They have described their work as mixing the arthouse with the dosshouse and putting highbrow performance in backstreet pubs and lowbrow performance in posh theatres.
It was a term of division and derision, and became shorthand for a population considered lowbrow, coarse and lacking education and cultural refinement.
This apparent absence of internal critical writing may be because many lowbrow artists began their careers in fields not normally considered fine art, such as illustration, tattooing and comic books.